Essays & Travelogues

In the first quarter of the 20th century, China was in turmoil, facing an existential crisis. Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked to the Turkish Republic as a role model. Turkey defeated foreign invading forces and renegotiated unfair treaties,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771605694Author Ella HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528984690Author R. Neville Tate OBEFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of Napoleon's armies, and he continued to travel and to live in Italy until a few months before his death. Some of his visits...

The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and...

A riveting coming-of-age journey and a tantalising glimpse into a time when Africa was an oyster for the young, the brave and the free. It all began at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, in 1961. Two young Princetonians have returned to New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740308Author Mary MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A thrilling memoir of the spectacular high-altitude mountaineering achievements of Andrew Lock: the only Australian to have summited all fourteen 8000-metre peaks in the world, including Mount Everest-twice. Here Andrew Lock gives us a gripping account...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228823Author Glen HeggstadFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945027Author Cedric GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816535873Author Tom MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 525g

In the seventeenth century antiquarianism was a well-respected profession and antiquarian works were in demand, particularly amongst the gentry, who were especially interested in establishing lineage and the descent of land tenure. Although intended...

Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century struggle between the Russian and British empires, and for the NATO campaign in Afghanistan. Today,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147509796Author Robert MacfarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago is a work of astounding breadth and originality that chronicles the British naturalist's scientific exploration of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and New Guinea between 1854 and 1862. An intrepid explorer who...

To some people, Florida is a paradise; to others, a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR,...

From the former CEO of renowned travel guide publisher Lonely Planet, a look at how travel can transform not only the traveler, but also the world.Imagine your job was to travel the world, then report back on how everyone else should do it. That's what...

The stretch of the longest river in the world that nurtured the world's first great civilization has drawn and impressed visitors since ancient times. The Greeks were fascinated by the mysterious annual flood of the Nile that brought both water and...

In 1927, Paul Morand -- a French diplomat and noted European author -- made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the American South. Published in 1929, his travel account begins as a diary about his experience of Venezuela, Curacao,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400076758Author Alice Leccese PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 302gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874802082Author Paul AugustinusFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Acorn BooksPublisher Acorn Books

Certain special places move us at a profound level - with a kind of inner beauty that puts us in direct touch with the spirit. It might be a temple, a church, a commemorative monument, a wayside shrine or a landscape feature that is saturated in the...

In his homage to the infinite west that is South Dakota, both past and present, Englishman Fraser Harrison tours well-known locations such as the Badlands, Mount Rushmore, and Deadwood. But there is far more to South Dakota, and the author also spent...

A travalogue which brings the author into contact with many characters ranging from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, gospel singers and crack dealers to the dangling window cleaner at the Empire State Building.Book InformationISBN 9780340531273Author Bernard...

Shane and Tim Spall are on the second leg of a very big adventure, taking their Dutch barge The Princess Matilda around the coast of Britain. From Matilda's winter berth in Cardiff, Shane and Tim follow the Welsh coast, before ambitiously deciding to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852000578Author Mavis GoreFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint United Writers Publications LtdPublisher United Writers Publications Ltd

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Five years in the Polish wilderness. Queues for groceries, unfathomable bus timetables, inexplicable traditions and truly bizarre soup – this is Poland in the mid-1990s, where Tom Galvin innocently went as a trainee teacher. Without a word of Polish, he...

Why do we react so strongly to certain places? Why do layers of mythology build up around particular features in the landscape? When Philip Marsden moved to a remote creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led...

In the finest tradition of intrepid female travel writers, Laurie Gough never shrinks from the lessons or dangers of the open road. Set against the exotic backdrop of a remote Fijian beach, the book traces Laurie's travels in Morrocco, Malaysia and on a...

*A NEW AND EXPANDED EDITION OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, MARKING TEN YEARS SINCE LEVISON WOOD'S EPIC QUEST* A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestsellerHis journey is 4,250 miles long.He is walking every step of the way, camping in the wild,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEWINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZEI had attached myself to the birds. I couldn't move on until the birds moved on, and the birds couldn't move on without the spring.One winter, after an enforced period of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804692783Author Hilary BradtFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bradt Travel GuidesPublisher Bradt Travel Guides

Scotland is famed for its rugged coastlines, pristine beaches, endless rivers and deep lochs. The whole country is a magnet for outdoor enthusiasts from all over the world. In this unique guide, adventurer Mollie Hughes introduces many of her favourite...

Collected here, from a period of nearly five decades, are thirty-six of Norman Lewis s best articles. In each, his writing crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance. As a witness to his times the good, the bad and the absurd he was...

Driven by a yearning to experience the vast skies and frozen beauty of the North, Gavin Francis goes in search of the people living along the northern limits of Europe. From the first Greek explorers to the Vikings to modern polar adventurers, he travels...

*** A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024 *** “Excellent…immensely well-researched and playful. Smith has written something special.” -- Patrick Galbraith, The Times "Imaginative and engaging" -- Country Life Acclaimed travel writer Oliver...

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This is a book about stories – old stories of people and place, and of the more-than-human world. A vivid account of a journey through the Scottish Highlands, The Bone Cave follows a series of folktales and myths to the places in which they’re set...

An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism, republished in the Picador Collection.